422 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN* FISHES, 



Genus Ciiilodactylus, Cuv. 



One dorsal fin with sixteen to nineteen spines ; the anal fin of 

 • moderate length ; the caudal forked ; one of the simple pectoral 

 ra3^s more or less exceeding the fin in length. Teeth in villiform 

 bands, no canines, no teeth on the vomer or palatine bones. 

 Prseorbital and praeoperculum entire. Scales moderate. Cheeks 

 scaly. Six or five branchiostegals. Air-bladder with many lobes 

 generally ; pyloric appendages in small number. 



Temperate regions of the Pacific. South Africa. 



265. Ciiilodactylus vittatus, Garrett. 



Gunth. Jour. Mus. Godeff. Heft. 7, p. 73, pi. 51, fig. b. 



Zeodrius vittatus, Castel., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. AVales, Vol. III., 



p. 377. 

 Port Jackson. 



Count Castelnau's species from Sydney is evidently the same 

 as Gunther's from the Sandwich Islands, the only disparity being 

 in Castelnau's describing the dorsal fin as having only one short 

 spine in front of the long one, which is clearly a mistake, 



266. Chilodactylus cakponemus, Cuv. «fe Val. 



Gunth. Cat. Pishes II., p. 78. 



B. 6. D. 17/31. A. 3/19. Ca3c. pylor. 2. 



Spven rays of the pectoral simj^le, the longest reaching nearly 

 to the end of the anal, and one-third of the total length. Dorsal 

 fin scarcely notched. Coloration uniform, the caudal fin with 

 blackish tips. 



South Australia. 



267. Ciiilodactylus macropterus, Eichards. 



Gunth. Cat. Pishes, II., p. 78. 

 '^ Morwong " of the Sydney Pishermen. 



